Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Only october...

Maybe i should just wait...

There are alot of what-if's... What if I was super-rich? What if I was dirt poor? What if I was a rodent (that particular fantasy always frightened me - because i have been privy to how people treat those that are unfortunately caught)

Anyway - I'm particularly glad that i have survived one full month in the cesspool of employment.
It pays the bills - and then some... But you're left to the mercy of the faceless entity who determines where, whom and why... If the faceless entity could be pinned to a face - you'd have a target for all the bile and frustration that comes with paid employment...

I'm beginning for instance to settle into this stage of "conformance - with norms".
I guess it happens to alot of people out there - it means that pretty soon, after working for two to three years (which zooms by pretty quickly) you start to feel the bug and pressure of age...
Questions abide in your mind (Am I where i should be? Am I successful as compared to my mates? is my family well catered for - for those who are married...)

The list is endless - meanwhile, time is gently inching by - one day you wake up and you have three children, a job that feels stifling, a morgage and a paycheck that barely covers the ink that wrote it...

Imagine despair...

The case reminds me of a tale:
A man went out and drank himself into the bottle...
Stoned and drunk to the extreme - he miraclously stumbled home and fell into bed - on waking up he sees a stange face and asks - who the heck are you?
the reply: I'm your wife!
he ponders the answer and then refrains - I must be having a nightmare and promptly goes back to sleep....

Moral: Reality is hard on the senses...

That said - we're in the last day of the month - 31st October - you may chose to review the month and note what happened, where you went wrong, what you did and didn't do?

We're entering the last lap of the year - novbember is a wind down month and december's just a flag point to indicate that you've survived till the end of the year...

So what else is new?

Monday, October 30, 2006

Recent happenings in the Nigerian space...

We are in mourning!
Our tears are like shed drops of blood that colour and paint the nation in a canvas of blood.

Prominent lives, notable personalities - all gone in the twinkle of an eye...
The respect, the power all gone - vanished.

They're now shadows of the past - lingering memories of a recently bygone era...

Some excerpts from some national newspapers (THISDAY & GUARDIAN):


It was yet another tragic Sunday yesterday in Nigeria with the crash in Abuja of a okoto-bound ADC flight that had on board the 19th Sultan of Sokoto and leader of the Muslim Ummah in the country, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Maccido (111); his son, Badamaci, who was a senator, as well as a grandson. Also onboard the aircraft was a leading advocate of democracy anchored on the rule of law, Senator Sule Yari Gandi, and many other prominent citizens. Coming exactly a year after the Bellview crash at Lisa Village, Ogun State, which claimed creme-de-la-creme of the Nigerian society, it was one crash too many for the nation. http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=61900




SINCE 1925 when Nigeria made its in road into the aviation industry with the first aeroplane landing in Lagos, the country has experienced over 50 serious air disasters. The first major air crash in the 81 year-old aviation industry was that of a Federal Government owned VC-10 aircraft on November 20, 1969. It was flying in from London and crashed as it prepared to land at the then Ikeja Airport. All 87 passengers and crew members on board were killed. Thereafter, the skies appeared safe until the late 80s and 90s when the crash surged due to the liberalisation of the sector.

Some of the disasters included:

  • June 26, 1991: An Okada Airlines plane carrying 55 passengers crashed in Sokoto with three persons killed.
  • September 1992: 158 people were killed when a military transport plane went down at Ejigbo, Lagos.
  • November 7, 1996: 142 people died when Boeing 727 (Flight 086) owned by Aviation Development Company (ADC) Airlines plunged into the Lagos lagoon 85 kilometres from Lagos.
  • July 29, 1997: Calabar, ADC Airlines plane crashed, killing one of the 55 persons on board
  • May 4, 2002: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by Executive Airlines Services (EAS) Airlines crashed in Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.
  • October 22, 2005: A Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 (Flight 210) crashed soon after take-off from Lagos near Lisa Village, Ogun State, killing the 117 people on board
  • December 10, 2005: A Sosoliso Airline DC-9 (Flight 1145) crashed in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, killing 108 people on board.
  • September 18, 2006: A Dornier 228 military plane crashed at Vandekiya, Benue State, killing 14 military officers including 10 Generals.

    Other crashes included:

  • September 1, 1989: An Okada Airlines plane with 92 persons aboard crashed in Port Harcourt. No life was lost.
  • September 16, 1991: A Kabo Airline crashed in Port Harcourt. All passengers survived.
  • August 23, 1992: Sokoto, A Kabo Airlines, no death occurred.
  • August 29, 1992: Kaduna, Hold Trade Airlines, no casualty was recorded.
  • January 31, 1997: Skypower Express Airways plane crashed at the Yola Airport.
  • July 29, 1997: BAC 1-11 owned by ADC Airlines.
  • September 12, 1997: Dornier 228-212 built in 1994 and operated by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) crashed with 10 persons on board.
  • February 22, 1998: Kaduna Airport, Chanchangi Airlines had its Boeing 737 crashed; the same year (1998), Boeing 707-355C built in 1968 operated by International Airlines also crashed at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
  • January 5, 2000: Skypower Express Airway's Embruer 110PIA Bandeirante crash-landed at the Abuja International Airport.
  • November 27, 2001: MK Airlines Boeing 747-246F also crashed.

Please pay special attention to the dates - within a one year window...

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Tripped by your own foot...

There are mistakes and there are obvious errors...

The choice of a description is entirely in your hands - i'm but a humble man with few opinions that really matter.

I'm in the office and it has suddenly dawned on me that there's a conspiracy to freeze my fingers to the bone - that's the most prominent - there are other body parts that have been exposed to the scourge of the air-conditioner...

Someone is busy complaining that they should leave the air-conditioner on but refuses to sit near it - meanwhile the rest of us suffer the cold... Today was particularly nasty.
Maybe I should speak for myself - I suffer the cold in silence...

I'm as usual trying to unravel the mystery that's woman...
I'm sure that somewhere out there - a woman's trying to unravel the mystery that's man - hence we're even!

From a man's perspective - women remain a mystery.
Maybe it's because we're trying to see them as men, maybe it's the influence of society, maybe it's biology - whatever it is women remain an enigma.

I have tried to unravel the appeal - why is any man attracted to a woman?
Most importantly why is the attraction based on first and foremost the physical level?
Why are our reasoning processes so different inspite of being similar?

If any of you out there have an answer please provide me with the much needed insight...

Thursday, October 12, 2006

At the peak of innovation the only way to go is forward.

I am truly amazed at what Google is doing!
They are single-handedly refining the web and the application of web related technologies to everyday events (work or play.)
Imagine the power of the web used anywhere - only requirement are:

  • An Internet connection
  • A web browser
That's it!

The simple beauty of this solution is:
  • You don't need to buy or download any software.
  • You won't be bothered to "update" your software for security issues or bug fixes.
  • You have documents that are available from ANY location.
  • The cost implications will be affordable for EVERYBODY.

The future is here and we are being pulled into it by our shirt tails - prepare for the ride of your life.
As i always say, innovation is a one direction attribute.


Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Down the path way of temptation...

I am constantly trying to understand me...

The "why" of me and my actions...
It boils down in the end to choice - I allow my feelings and emotions to make the choice for me and voila - presto, I've made my decision.

I have recently given in to a long dormant side of my personality and what shocked me the most was that I thought (I actually thought!) I had it under control.

I have a self confessed fetish - I have this thing for female feet - but not ANY type of female feet. I cannot really put it into words but it gets me (nearly) every time.

As I grew up, I felt that I had over grown this part of me - but to my (dismay),
I'm in way deeper bondage, than I thought.

In my case, hell for me is simply being unleashed in a sea of female feet.
Okay - maybe that wasn't the right definition.

It's not so much the feet (female's of course), as what the female in question does with the feet.
God!

There are of course some of you out there who might think I'm looney or just a plain "pervert" and you might be right. Show me a man or woman without a hangup of some sort and I'll show you a human utopia - an eden on earth!

You may not understand what all the fuss is about - these are feet for godsake - it's the same thing for people with facination with breasts, legs, ass and every other body part that incites a temporary passion...

that said and done - this is me, like me or loathe me - this is as real as it gets!


ciao...

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Embrace the future or stand back on the sidelines...

Where do you stand? (most likely very still!)
No need to rattle the cage that you call home.

Funny question considering how well your life is going? All peaches and roses.
For those of you who fall into the Optimistic camp (that is - the sun is shining out of my ass syndrome) - you have my blessings with a quick rejoinder thrown in: How the heck do you do it?

For those of you who claim to be Realists - what can I say?
If it smells like shit, tastes like shit - likely answer (obvious by now) is that IT IS SHIT!
(You say it as you see it, smell it and taste it!)

And as for the Pessimist (as Nicolas Cage put it: Shame on you!)

Life's a rollercoaster and the ride's always bumpy and full of hair raising moments.
There's no getting off except when you have to transmutate to feed the worms (Die!)
The cycle has been fairly consistent until science (always eager to show how it has advanced in the modern age) came up with ways to extend, improve or alter...
(All things considered, Death is the exit strategy!)

The future is here and now - staring us in the face.
We are more or less moving through life with little or no idea about the eventual outcome.
If life's a game then some people haven't read the rule book yet but assume that they'll "Get" it as they go along! Logic that is apparently only Human!

I am a master of my fate - the captain of my destiny in life's uncertain waters (what poetry - what hogwash!)
I wake up everyday to a sad reality (I am without a clue) as to where my life'll be in the next one minute (I try not to gaze too intently into the future).
I sometimes feel like a lab rat - going through a predetermined sequence designed by someone else - to me it seems that all is normal. But is it really?
Am I not perhaps pandering to someone's objective?

You must have heard the term: THE BIG PICTURE!
The question to really ask is that in the big scheme of things where do you fit in?
Are you merely a disposable and inconsequential part of the big picture.
An after thought, included because you happened to be available?

Fact:
I have no wish to be inconsequential - ever!
I believe that's why I love chess as a game. I'm not a particularly good player (I don't even play the game!) . But I feel that it develops your ability to think a certain number of steps ahead - to anticipate scenarios and develop counter measures (I sound like a spy! 007 to the rescue)

The ability to anticipate and develop strategies that counteract threats or diffcult scenarios will determine ultimately who reins as Top dog.

Guess what? That's my plan!

Later folks...